Trunk-roller and corner-piece



(MddeL) A.. V. ROMADKA, v TRUNK ROLLER AND CORNER PIECE.

No. 291,230. Patented Jan. 1, 1884.

UNITE STAT S PATENT OFFICE.

ANTHONY V. ROMADKA, OF VVAUWVATOSA, VISCONSIN.

TRUNK-ROLLER AND CORNER-PIECE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,230, dated January 1, 1884.

Application filed July 23, 1883.

To aZZ whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, ANTHONY V. ROMADKA, of Wauwatosa, in the county of Milwaukee, and in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certainnew and useful Improvementsinlrunk- Rollers and Corner-Pieces; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to casters and cornerpieces for trunks, &c., and will be fully described hereinafter.

In the drawings, Figure l is a bottom view of my improved caster. Fig. 2 is a section taken through the center of the same, showing its position on a trunk; and Fig. 3 is an elevation of a portion of a trunk.

A A are plates, which are perforated to receive the trunnions of rollers a a, which are arranged in a circle. The plate A has also a central and larger perforation, that is designed to receive the reduced portion b of a hub, B, that carries the bearings for a roller, 0, and plate A has a still larger central perforation to receive the base of hub B. The arrangement of rollers a or leaves a space just large enough for the passage of the hub B up between them, so that each roller (1 will bear upon the hub, which is secured in place by slightly upsetting its reduced portion over plate A. Aside from the perforations in plates A A already mentioned, I provide them with perforations to receive the reduced ends of studs c c, which, after they are inserted, are upset to rivet the two plates together, while their shoulders serve to prevent the plates A -A from approachin each other sufficientl to bind upon the rollers a a and prevent them from revolving freely. After the plates have been secured together and the rollers and roller-hub have been secured in place, my device is let into the under sideof a trunk, and then secured in place by a corner-piece or buffer, as shown in Fig. 2, and that the plate A may be flush with the under side of the cornerpiece, I rabbet the edges of the former. By

my construction I give a firm support to the hub of the caster, and at the same time one that will. permit it to revolve freely as the trunk is moved about the room.

The corner-piece D not only-holds the caster in place, but, extending, as it does, beneath (ModeL) the bottom rail of the trunk and up onto the uprights E, serves to clasp both the bottom rail and uprights together, while its flanges d form a socket that confines the uprights in place against any tendency to spring laterally.

D represents a similar casting for the intermediate uprights.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a trunk-roller, the plates A and A,

the upper plate, A, being perforated to receive the neck or reduced portion of the hub B, while the lower plate, A, is perforated and provided wit-h a shoulder to receive the enlarged lower portion of said hub, in combination with the hub B and roller 0, the journal of which is directly below the said hub, which is hollowed out on the under side to receive the said roller, and the upper part of which hub is upset above the upper plate, and the vertical rollers a a, journaled in the plates A A, and in contact with the hub B, substantially as set forth.

2. In combination with a trunk-body. the plates A and A, and the hub B, hollowed out on its under side to receive the roller 0, having its journals located directly under said hub, and secured in the depending portions thereof on each side of the hollowed-out portion, with the rollers a a and the corner-piece D, the lower horizontal flange of which extends under the lower plate, A, of the roller proper, and serves to secure it in place on the under side of the trunk-body, hollowed out to receive it, substantially as set forth.

3. In combination with a trunk-body having bottom rail and uprights on the outside of said body, the castings D D, adapted to clamp the bottom rail and uprights securely together,- and having inwardly-proj ecting flanges d, that confine the said uprights in place against any tendency to spring laterally, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I 5 ANTHONY v. BOMADKA.

' Witnesses:

H. G. UNDERwooD, M. KAUMHEIMER. 

